Originally Posted by denphone

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/20...statement-live

A £40billion credit easing scheme to help small firms;

A £5billion cash boost for over 500 infrastructure projects – including roads, railways, airports and broadband expansion. A further £25billion could be spent in future years;

A trimming Britain’s foreign aid budget so that it does not overshoot its 0.7 per cent spending target by 2013;

An increase in the Bank levy to raise £2.5billion;

An extra £1.2bn will be spend on education - including £600m for authorities that need new school places;

A £1billion fund to help the young unemployed;

Mortgage indemnity scheme to help 100,000 people get onto the property ladder;

£500m housebuilding plan in England;

January rise in regulated rail fares to be capped at 6.2%, not 8.2%;

A £250million scheme to ease the impact of climate change taxes on energy intensive firms;

£380m to double free nursery places for toddlers

Originally Posted by Alan Fry

what i meant to say was

It will no do anything major to help the economy and the the public sector pay cap is really just proves the the government want to fight the public sector unions

Plus they are giving aid to other counteries when 20% of our fellow UK citizen are in poverty

This Country is going down the dogs and nether the Tories/Lib Dems or Labour has any policys to deal with the economy

Originally Posted by denphone

l think that the lack of foresight about pensions can apply to governments of whatever political colour they are for the last 30 years Hugh.

Originally Posted by martyh

yes they do ,they are trying to reduce borrowing, get unemployment down and reduce public spending ,for the forseable future that will be their policy .In this thread you stated you would prefer tax increases to cuts ,i'm sure that Osborne and the rest have considered that option but dismissed it because it doesn't help in reducing public spending/borrowing that much if unemployment is rising and will always be the most unpopular option